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Kids in Danger (KID)


Self Description

August 2011: "Kids In Danger (KID) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children by improving children’s product safety. KID was founded in 1998 by the parents of sixteen-month-old Danny Keysar who died in his Chicago childcare home when a portable crib collapsed around his neck.

Although the portable crib had been recalled five years earlier, word of its danger had not reached Danny’s parents, caregiver, or a state inspector who visited the home just eight days before Danny’s death.

To date, 19 children have died in cribs of similar faulty design. And portable cribs are just one of the myriad children’s products that may prove to be dangerous..."

http://www.kidsindanger.org/about-us/

Third-Party Descriptions

July 2011: '“The standard was unchanged for years because of industry stonewalling,” said Nancy Cowles, executive director of Kids in Danger, a nonprofit group dedicated to making children’s products safer.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/business/with-new-safety-rules-for-cribs-makers-scramble-and-retailers-fume.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Nancy Cowles Person Aug 2, 2011

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jul 15, 2011 After Long Battle, Safer Cribs

QUOTE: The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued new regulations for cribs that the authorities say are the toughest in the world....some manufacturers had not had all of their cribs certified by testing laboratories, frustrating some retailers who have been stuck with cribs that they are not permitted to sell.

 New York Times